6,100 : Magic incantations
against astrologers, the silly and barbarians whom Nostradamus wished to
entrench the number of his/her/its disciples. Likely reference to an ancient
Egyptian malediction placed to the basis of the temple of Simbel Abou.

6,74 : Mary the
1st Tudor and Élisabeth, all two, daughters of Henry
VIII, seeked succession to the throsne of England. After the death d'Edouard
the VIIth, Mary proclaims herself Queen in spite of the opposition of Protestants.
The vast purge undertaken by this queen, that will be nicknammed later
"Bloody Mary" (1553-1558).

6,47 : Meeting
in Dole between the governor and the president of the Parliament of Franche-Comté
for the transfer of power to Philippe of Spain. The Habsbourg provoke the
decline of Brussels at the expense of the city of Malînes (1556).

6,62 : The invasion
of the Papal States by the Habsbourg in 1556. The order of troops granted
to the duke D'Albe. The intervention of France in the conflict and the
entrusted mission to the duke of Guise. The confrontation without glory
darkens the reputation of the two great Generals.

7,2 : Diane De Poitiers,
notorious mistress of the Henri king II of France. The colors of beautiful
Diane - the black and the white - proudly worn by the monarch. The death
of the celebrated concubine, April 25 1566. The second war of Religion
(1567-1568).

8,49 : The heavy
consequences of the Cateau-Cambresis treaty (1559) for France. The death
of the pope Paul IV, during that very year. The empire of Habsbourg compromised
by the disappearance of Charles Quint.

4,93 : The birth
of Henri of Navarre (1553), future king of France Henri IV. The dreams
of the queen Catherine of Medicis about him make her fear the worse for
the life of her husband, Henri II. Henri of Navarre destined to become
a noticed monarch.

6,10 : The disastrous
tournament where Henri II of France lost his life (1559). The worn colors
by the king and by its friends the dukes of Ferrare, De Guise and de Nemours.
The end of the monarch prelude and pretext to the terrible wars of Religion
that bloodied the country between 1562 and 1598.

10,39 : Mentally and physically weak,
François II was dominated by the uncles of his wife, François
of Lorraine, duke de Guise, and the cardinal Charles of Lorraine. The death
of François II marked the end of the ascension of the De Guises
into the Court.

4,16 : Geneva,
place by excellence for Protestants during the XVlth Century. The appartenance
of the city to Savoy until the beginning of the XVllth Century, and the
acquisition of its freedom from that regime.

6,8 : Ronsard, poet
to the France Court under the reigns of Henri II, of François II
and of Charles IX. His decline Under Henri III and the total forgetfulness
to which he was confined. The tragic end of his colleagues of the same
literary school.

4,88 : Antoine
of Bourbon betrays his reformists co-religious peers because of a tempting
offer from the Vatican that would have granted him the kingdom Of Sardaigne.
Catherine of Medicis, in front of his submission, named the said person
lieutenant General of the kingdom. The end of the controversed character
during the Siege of Rouen (November 19th, 1562).

6,60 : Antoine
of Bourbon, lieutenant general of the kingdom of France (1561). The Siege
of Rouen and the brutal end of the character. Rouen and LaRochelle, Protestant
dominated cities, see Brittain interpose itself to counter the growth of
calvinism.

7,1 : France understands
the strategic importance of Provence at the very beginning of the wars
of Religion. The body of a Protestant, Richard, sieur of Mauvans, hung
and exhibed on the public place of d'Aix. The processes ordered by the
king, in this province, between 1560 and 1564.

8,31 : The misfortunes of the marquis
of Pescara in Italie. His reputation of prestigious warrior tainted
by the dark acts of the duke of d'Albe (1566). His nomination as vice-king
of Sicile by the emperor some years later.

6,83 : The d'Albe
duke dispatched in the Low Lands (1566} in order to subdue the Protestants.
Aduled by the crowd when they enter in Belgium, the imperial troops later
generates contempt. The numerous executions raise the anger of the population.

10,5 : The alliances
between Albi and Castres after the death of Condé at Jarnac in March
1569, a huge campaign in the Languedoc in October 1570, after a new Religious
peace attempt August 20, at St-Germain.

9,48 : The tidal
wave that devastated the harbor of Hague and the whole of Holland, immersing
all the Jutland country up on November 1570, taking thousands to their
death. The reconstruction, during winter and the following spring, in the
extreme conditions brought by the destruction of all the dykes, dams of
the country.

6,75 : The imposing
career of Don Juan of Autriche, natural son of emperor Charles Quint. The
navale victory of Lepanto over the Moslem Turks. His nomination as general
governor to the Low-Lands ("Holland"?). The end of this huge character
in 1578.

7,9: The marriage
of Marguerite of Valois to Henri of Navarre. Characterized infidelity of
the two spouses. Secret loves of the beautiful Margot with duke Henri de
Guise, principal enemy of the Navarrois at the time of the wars of Religion.

7,16 : The peace
of Saint-German (1570) puts a term to the third war of Religion. The truce
imposes specific limits around Paris to the Protestants. The three Protestant
leaders - Condé, Navarre & Coligny - submit. Catherine of Médicis
prepares the Saint-Barthélemy (24 August 1572).

4,10: The assassination
of the Coligny admiral (24 August l572) and the renunciation of d'Henri
of Navarre (future Henri IV of France). The long interval between his anointing
and the death of his predecessor.

8,58 : The military
career of Gabriel, count of Montgomery. His switch of alliegeance to the
British Crown. The conflict between Henri III and his Alençon brother,
eloquent syrnbole Division of the France at the time of the first war of
Religion. The capture of Montgomery, May 27, 1574.

4,87: Henri III
succeeds to his brother Charles IX on the Throsne of France (1574). The
erudition of the monarch and his different manner of driving the fate of
the State. The role of his in-laws (de Guise) in the assassination
of Coligny, and in the massacre of the Saint-Barthelemy.

6,94 : The curious
vestimentary habits in the court of Henri III. The fashionable intrigue
games in the entourage of the king. The defeat of invincible Spanish Armada
September 15, 1588, a year before the assassination last of the Valois.

10,34 : Henri II,
and his brother in-law future Henri III who betrays France by allying with
Spain. Due to this alliance, he wins the St-Quentin battle on the French,
in 1557. The war stops with the Peace of Cateau Cambrésis.

9,97 : Battle of the three kings, August
4 1578, that will see the confrontation of D'Alger Bey and Al-Malik Abd,
Morocco, which allies with the king of Portugal. The three kings will confront
each other at Bekir El Ksar. Portugal is overcome and the battle to death
will continue between the two Moslem factions, until the victory of the
Moroccans, that will have previously inflicted a first time breach in the
Algerian forces.

7,11 : The disgraceful
character of the last one of the sons of Catherine Of Medicis (d'Alençon
Hercule). The marriage project of this unworthy offspring to Élisabeth
1st of d'Angleterre compromised by its fiasco in the Low-Lands (Holland)
(1583).

10,52 : Hercule,
the son of Catherine of Médicis, what she will look for to case
him by an advantageous marriage on the side of England on account of the
fact that Elizabeth 1st had not had taken a spouse yet. January 17 1583,
he commits nevertheless a capital error while investing the cities
of Gand, of Bruges and Anvers. Learning his ruin, from England, Élisabeth
will let him know her Final refusal to her great relief.

3,51: The plot
aiming the assassination of the leader of Ligue, Henri de Guise, after
its continuous pressures on Henri III to refuse to designate Savoie Henri
of Navarre as apparent heir to the throsne (1588).

3,55: The assassination
of duke De Guises, December 23 1588, at the hands of the faithful Gascons
of the guard of the king Henri III. Interrogation remains as to who of
Henri III or of his mother Catherine of Médicis had ordered this
crime.

5,9: The assassination
of duke Henri De guise by France Henri III, in December 1588. The disappearance
of the arch of Glanum, an antiquity that celebrated Saint-Rémy-of-Provence,
at the end of the XVIth Century.

8,18 : The reign
of the three sons of Catherine of Medicis. The unlimited ambition of de
Guise provokes the wars of Religion, during the second half of the
XVlth century. The role of the Florentine women in the assassination
of De Guise, in December 1588.

9,86 : The Day of
the Barricades of May 12, 1588, preceded by the troops Henri De Guise that
were returning to Blois with him and the elimination of De Guise, followed
by the subsequent assassination of Henri III, and then the triumph of Henri
IV and of his family with his glorious entry in Paris closed.

8,25 : The love liaison
of Marguerite of Valois with the duke Henri de Savoie ignites the jealousy
of the future Henri III. The assassination of the duke and of his brother
the cardinal ordered by the king, a fine day of the end of December 1588.

5,12 : Invasion of the ideas of Luther
and of Calvin in Germany, in Geneva, then in France at the beginning of
the second half of the XVI th Century. The role of d'Augsbourg cities and
of Geneva in the diffusion of the Reformation.

4,79 : The wars
of Religion at the end of the XVI' Century. Navarre and Bigorre undergo
some the biggest consequences. The famine that in résulted in 1598
and the unprecedented inflation which hit the entire country of France.

6,29 : The reigns
of François II and Charles IX of France, darkened by the first war
of Religion. The imposing presence of their mother in the matters of the
kingdom. Massacre of the Saint-Barthelemy (1572).

4,18 : The persecutions
undertaken against of the astronomers towards the end of the second half
of the XVIth century and beginning of the XVIIth. The forerunners, Copernic,
of Cusa, Bruno and Galilée, followed by the Inquisition.

8,71 : The progresses of the modern
astronomy at the end of the XVIth Century shake the secular positions of
the Church of Rome. The censorship exercized by the Vatican against the
published works. The condemnation to death of the philosopher and astronomer
Bruno Giordano, in 1600.

6,11 : The extinction
of the dynasty of the Valois. The fight for power between Henri III and
his brother, the duke of Alençon. The wars of Religion that marked
France during the course of the reigns of the last elements of the family.

6,63 : The death
of the Henri II king of France and the regency exercised by Catherine
of Medicis under the successive reigns of François II and of Charles
IX. The seven years mourning that she imposed herself after the disappearance
of Henri (1559-1566).

10,18 : Two great ones disappear: Catherine
of Medicis and King Henri III. She will die therefore January 5 1589. Henri
III was assassinated few months later, August 2, leaving the throsne to
Henri that would become king Henri I of Navarre (Henri IV), of which the
son, was the Duke of Vendôme. Three weeks later, in Rome, Sixte Quint
died, and the Roman Urban VII then took his place, but did not live over
13 days of his pontificat. Then came the Milanese Gregoire XIV whom the
magus calls son of Jupiter because of his forcefulness to defend the Church
(he raised and led an army against France).

8,67 : The French
cities of Paris and of divided Carcassonne faced with the accession of
Henri of Navarre to the crown of France (1588-1590). The intervention of
Spanish armies of the duke of Parme (Alexandre Famèse) to liberate
Paris, July 1590. His triumphant entry in Paris, October 7, and the
inconditionnal support of the main Italian families in his enterprise.

5,41 : The unforeseen
advent of d'Henri IV on the throsne of France. The antique blood of the
noble family of Bourbons. The care that brought the new monarch into improvement
of the finances of the State in the beginning of the XVIIth
century.

6,23 : The France
Catholics protest the d'Henri couronnement IV. The city of Paris, supported
by the Spain, denies him its rights to the throsne. The king constrained
to besiege the capitale (1590) and the agonies then endured by the population.

6,96 : The initial
refusal of Paris to accept Henri of Navarre. The besieged City by the troops
of the monarch. The Spaniards called to the rescue of the resistants. The
numerous victims in the starving city (1590-1591).

7,17 : The deep
respect of Henri IV for his subjects, shown during of the siege of Paris
(1590). The erudition of the monarch. Sully and someone named Laffemas
at the most important ministries, in 1595. Sully is strongly criticized
after the imposition of The "pancarte".

7,25 : The unending
wars endured by France during the XVIth Century. The country
then has more soldiers than farmers and craftsmen together. The technical
bankruptcy of the state at the advent of Henri IV.

10,41 : Sacre of
Henri IV (1594). Cahors corresponds to the site of an important one D'Henri
victory of Navarre on the Catholics (29 May 1580). Couronnement of IV d'Henri
(1594), and joy demonstrations in the regions that him are obtained, here
to Caussade and Villefranche, to the northeast, Past Caylus, Villefranche
of Rouergue.

8,69 : The election to the papacy of
Grégoire XIV in front of an older rival, December 5, 1590. The accession
of the evinced cardinal on the throsne of St-Peter less than a year later.
The advent two months later, of Clementus VIII.

9,59 : Probable intervention of Louise
of Lorraine in the attribution of the title of his brother named governor
of Brittany in 1582, and the attempt of this later one to give to the Bretons
their total independence with the help of the Spaniards in March 1592,
which these would have kept the Burgundy duchy occupied since December
1588 in exchange for their collaboration if the entreprise had succeeded.

3,88 : The refusal of Marseille to recognize
Henri IV as the king of France. Casaulx, leader of the city, betrays his
fellow citizens by favoring a Spanish invasion. The end of the felon, February
17, 1596.

10,26 : The succession
of Henri III to Henri IV. The Edict of Nantes and the defeats of the duke
of Mercoeur in Brittany that brought the decision to capitulate by the
Ligue and the capture of d'Amiens upon their return, and the one to negotiate
Spain to Vervins May 2 1598.

4,57 : Marguerite
of Valois, the unfaithful spouse of d'Henri IV of France. The cancellation
of his marriage in 1599. The king reacts harshly against the manuscript
of the jesuits by ordering the expulsion of the community from the kingdom.

9,87 : By putting
his wife, the Queen Margot, in hermitage, the king got divorce from Clément
VIII, and is an example of his influence on the religion. He would then
go on and marry Mary of Medicis, December 16, 1600.

10,17 : Marguerite
of Valois, that had married Henri IV in 1572, at the time of the massacre
of the St-Bathelemy, was in discord with him. And many adulteries ended
up dividing the couple. She was put away, by him, as early as 1587, to
the Château of Usson in Auvergne and was disinherited by the queen-mother.
And after the death of Catherine of Médicis, his marriage was canceled
(forclos) and then Henri IV married Mary de Medicis.

7,20 : Political
entreprises by the Vatican, between april 1599 & april 1600, to convince
Henri IV to marry the Catholic Marie de Médicis. The main part played
by the ardinal de Gondi in the negociations.

7,24 : The main house of Lorraine, holder
of the title of of the Bridge marquisat and duchys of Bar and Savoy. The
members of the family illustrated themselves during of the XVIth Century.
Its decline towards the XVIIe.